Hopelessly out of touch with reality, Kay Daly frittered away her 20s earning a Ph.D. in English Literature. Her stirring page-turner of a dissertation -- entitled "Polymorphous Perversities: Appearances of Petrarchism in Non-Lyric Genres" -- was based almost entirely on her unfortunate romantic past. Now happily married and living in Chicago, Kay hopes to live out her golden years baking, singing Italian arias, riding her '60s lady's Schwinn, and peddling her dubious editorial wares.